Today NOAA released a set of new climate summaries for each state. Here is what their new website says: The State Climate Summaries spell out recent local conditions for each state and provide insights about the state’s climate outlook based on historical trends. Climate is distinguished from daily weather because…
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I’ve been tied up with training and grant-writing this week, but have been getting lots of questions about the potential for wintry weather in northern Georgia and adjacent areas this weekend. I will take a more detailed look tomorrow, but thought I would share a couple of related websites that…
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I am a co-author of the U. S. Global Change Research Project’s latest national climate assessment chapter on the Southeast. Some of the things that we look at are indicators of how climate is changing based on variables like temperature, precipitation, and related quantities like growing season length, heat waves,…
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Today the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City GA had an online webinar on winter weather. In it, they mentioned a few websites they have for people to use in decision-making that you might find useful. I don’t know if other NWS offices in the region have similar pages,…
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If you use daily climate normals for temperature and precipitation, you can now find the new updated ones for 1991-2020 available in tabular form from Jan Null at https://ggweather.com/normals/daily91.htm.
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Got this update from the PRISM climate group in Oregon. Maybe it is something that you can use if you do climate studies: We are pleased to announce the release of updated PRISM 1991-2020 gridded normals datasets for the conterminous United States. Elements include precipitation; minimum, maximum, and mean temperature;…
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It’s the time of year when I start to get questions about the likelihood of frost in the next week. Fortunately, there is a new online experimental tool available to help producers look ahead to see the likelihood of frost for at least the next six days. It was developed…
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